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by
Robin Sharma
Discover Your Calling,
and
Live Fully So You Can Die Happy.
Life Lessons from the monk
who sold his Ferrari
“When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced.
Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world
cries while you rejoice”.
- Sanskrit Saying
Writing down your daily experiences along with the lessons you
have drawn from them will make you wiser with each passing day.
You will develop self-awareness and make fewer mistakes. And
keeping a journal will help you clarify your intentions so that you
remain focused on the things that truly count.
Thinking about all those things that you wish never happened to
you is actually blocking all those things that you want to happen
from entering into your life. It makes no sense worrying about past
events or mistakes unless you want to experience them a second
time. Instead, use the lessons you have learned from your past to
rise to a whole new level of awareness and enlightenment.
The way you begin your day determines the way you will live
your day. If you have the self discipline to ensure that, during the
first 30 minutes of your day, you think only the purest of thoughts
and take only the finest of actions, you will notice that your days
will consistently unfold in the most marvelous ways.
To revitalize yourself and nourish the deepest part of you, plan for
a weekly period of peace – a weekly sabbatical – to get back to
the simpler pleasures of life, pleasures you may have given up as
your days grew busier and your life more complex. This simple
ritual will help you reduce stress, connect to your creative side
and feel far happier in every role of your life.
The words and the language that we use on a daily basis have a profound
influence in creating a more enlightened pathway of thought. Select a
phrase that you will train your mind to focus on at different times throughout
the day until it begins to dominate your awareness. For example, if it is
inner peace and calm that you seek, your mantra might be, “I am so grateful
that I am a serene and tranquil person.” Try to say your personal phrase at
least two hundred times a day for at least four weeks. The results will be
profound as you take one giant step to finding the peace, prosperity and
purpose your life requires.
Too many people spend the best years of their lives stuck in a
state of constant worry. One of the simple strategies to conquer
the worry habit is to schedule specific times to worry – Worry
Breaks. Schedule fixed time to worry – say 30 minutes every
evening – during which you may wallow in your problems and
brood over your difficulties. But after that period ends, you must
train yourself to leave your troubles behind and do something
more productive.
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Model a Child
Make the time to connect to your more playful side, the child
within you. Tale the time to study the positive qualities of children
and model their ability to stay energized, imaginative and
completely in the moment no matter what might be going on
around them.
With a healthy dose of inspiration, you will quickly raise your life to
a whole new plane of living. To increase your level of inspiration,
read a good self-help book, attend a public lecture by someone
you admire or spend a few hours studying the biography of one of
your heroes. Start spending time with people who are passionate
about what they are doing and dedicated to making the best out of
life.
Make a list of all people you wish lived next door to you. Then
think about the qualities that make them so admirable and how
you can foster such qualities in your own life. The first step to
becoming the person you want to be is identifying the traits of the
person you want to be.
One must realize that pain is a teacher and failure is the highway
to success. Begin to see your trouble as blessings, resolve to
transform your stumbling blocks into stepping stones and vow to
turn your wounds into wisdom. It is during life’s most trying times
that we discover who we really are and the fullness of the strength
that lies within us.
Rather than living by the watch and planning everything you are
going to do, once every while, spend a day simply living for the
moment and doing whatever you like.
The real secret to live your life to the fullest is to stop spending
your days searching for security and start spending your time
pursuing opportunity. Get good at being uncomfortable and
stop walking the path of least resistance. You will meet with your
share of failures if you start living more deliberately. But failure is
nothing more than learning how to win.
As the timeless truth says, ‘The hand that gives is the hand that
gathers.’ When you send your money out, always remember to
bless it and ask it to bless everybody it touches. For example:
when you pay for your groceries, silently bless all those who have
helped bring the food to you: farmers who have grown it, people
who have processed and transported it and the store clerks who
have stocked it and hope that the money adds to the quality of
their life.
Time is our most precious commodity and yet most of us live our
lives as if we have all the time in the world. The real secret to
getting control of your life is to restore a sense of focus in your
days. Once you start spending your days only on those high-
leverage activities and priorities that will advance your life’s
mission and legacy, everything will change.
The more the pace of our life speeds up, the greater the impact
the simple gestures of life will have on those most deserving of
them. And at the top of this list of simple gestures is the lost art of
writing thank-you notes. Few acts have the power to build and
cement relationships like a heartfelt letter of thanks.
Mother Teresa once said, ‘There are no great acts. There are only
small acts done with great love.’ To practice being more loving,
create a love account. Each day, make few deposits into this
account by doing something small to add joy in life of someone
else. These tiny deposits into the love account will give you far
more happiness than any amount of money in your bank account.
The greatest gift you can give to your children is the gift of time.
And one of the greatest gifts you will ever give yourself is that of
enjoying your kids and seeing them for what they truly are: the
small miracles of life.
Our minds are like chained monkeys, rushing from place to place
without any pause for peace. So rather than being present and
mindful in the current moment, our mind is in ten different places
at a time. When too many distractions compete for our attention,
the power of our mind is dissipated in different directions rather
than being focused on the ‘here and now’. By developing present
moment awareness, we can unlock our mind’s full potential.
‘He who asks may be a fool for five minutes. He who doesn’t is a
fool for a lifetime.’ The person who asks for what he wants at least
has some chance of getting what he wants. The person who does
not ask has no chance. So start flexing your ‘asking muscles’ by
asking for a better table at the restaurant, for a complimentary
upgrade on your next airline flight or for help from your co-worker.
You will be surprised at the abundance that will flow into your life.
We are all endowed with the capacity for genius. But most of us
are so busy concentrating on what we don’t have that we neglect
the talents we do have. The greatest people in this world knew the
special qualities that made them unique and spent the rest of their
lives refining and expanding them. Are you using the best within
you to its fullest capacity?
Your thoughts are shaped by the people you associate with, the
books you read, the words you speak and your daily physical
surroundings. So, take steps to improve the environment you live
and work in; you will soon detect improvements in the way you
feel, think and act.
‘One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind
somewhere else in life.’ Volunteering affords you the chance to
help others and pay back the debt owed to those who have
helped you. Volunteering to serve those who have less than you is
also an excellent way to remind yourself on a regular basis of the
abundance that exists in your life.
Do you remember those times when you heard just the right song
at just the right moment? Music can lift your mood, put the smile
back on your face and add immeasurably to your quality of life.
Get serious about listening to music that inspires you. Build a
collection of your favorite pieces and play something that fills your
heart with joy every single day of the week.
Imagining that each day is your last, will reconnect you to the fact
that time is a priceless commodity and the best time to live a
richer, wiser and more fulfilling life is now.
If you do not devote the time and effort to becoming the best
parent you know you can be, one day you will deeply regret the
lost opportunity. Take the initiative to improve your parenting
abilities by attending seminars and reading books by the best in
this field and have the courage to refine the ideas you learn to
find parenting strategies that best suit your family
Rethink the way you do things and do things that are right for you
or in a way that is best suited to you. Being different for all the
right reasons is a wise way to live. Take the road less traveled and
find success beyond your wildest dreams.
A goal card simply lists your top life goals along with clear
deadlines for achieving them. Carrying a goal card that you can
review during the quieter moments of your day is a smart way of
reconnecting to your highest priorities, whether they are personal,
professional or spiritual.
You are not your moods; you are the creator of the moods you
experience and hence, you can change your moods in a single
instant. If you choose to do so, you can feel peace in a moment of
stress, joy in a time of sadness and energy during a time of
fatigue.
The past is gone; the future is but a figment, so this day is really
all you can own. Invest it wisely. Life is not a dress rehearsal. Lost
opportunities rarely come again. Vow to increase your passion for
living and multiply the commitment you will bring to each of the
following days.
If you find that after reading the first three chapters of a book, you
have not gained any worthwhile information or that the book has
failed to keep your attention, do yourself a favor: put the book
away and make better use of your time. Not every book deserves
to be read in its entirety and reading out of sense of guilt makes
the pastime of reading far less enjoyable.
Staying quiet for even short periods of time builds willpower and
self-control because you exert force on your will by not giving in to
the impulse to talk. To improve your personal discipline in this
aspect, keep a vow of silence for one hour a day over the next
seven days. Within a matter of days, you will feel a sense of
mastery and strength growing within you.
Any recreation you undertake must serve to restore you and bring
you back to life. Real recreation will fill you with a renewed sense
of optimism and energy. True recreation connects you to the
highest and best within you while rekindling your inner fire.
Effective recreation then must involve some pursuit that soothes
your soul.
Research has shown that the way you act influences the thoughts
you think. Thus, you can pretend to be the kind of person you wish
to be. By consistently acting as a highly enthusiastic person might
or as a truly confident person would, you will eventually take on
these personal attributes.
‘Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any
higher than you think.’ It is not what you are that hold you back; it
is what you think you are not. And the moment you understand
this insight and set about ridding your mind of all its limiting
thoughts, you will see almost immediate improvement in your
personal circumstances.
Watching a tree grow from a sapling into a tall oak will keep you
connected with the daily passage of time and the cycles of nature.
Just as the tree grows and matures, so too will you be able to
mark your personal passages and growth as a human being.
Do not wait until you are on your deathbed to realize the meaning
of life and the precious role we have to play within it. Spend your
days in doing work that is engaging, in pursuits that are inspiring
and with people who are loving. Simply stated, the purpose of life
is a life of purpose.